At least 10 people died Thursday when Taliban insurgents wearing military uniforms mounted a six-hour gun and grenade siege on a court complex in northern Afghanistan, in an assault highlighting the country’s fragile security situation.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Italy rocked by deadly court shooting, 3 killed
MILAN - An armed man on trial for bankruptcy fraud gunned down a judge and lawyer in a Milan court Thursday in an attack which left three dead and sent shockwaves through Italy.
Bangladesh JI leader on death row faces final plea
DHAKA - A Bangladesh Islamist leader has a final chance Thursday to avoid the gallows by appealing to the president for clemency against his death sentence for war crimes, an official said.
US man arrested for allegedly supporting IS
WASHINGTON - A Wisconsin man has been charged with providing support to Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria, where he allegedly planned to join the extremist group, the Justice Department said Thursday.
2 Philippine soldiers killed in Qaeda-linked clash
Philippine soldiers clashed with about 200 fighters of a Al Qaeda-linked militant group on Thursday, leaving two soldiers and six guerrillas dead, a military spokeswoman said.
Mortar fire kills 11 civilians in Egypt’s Sinai
CAIRO - Mortar fire has killed 11 civilians, all but one of them women and children, in Egypt’s North Sinai, where the government is battling an Islamist insurgency, police and medics said Thursday.
Playing games in sync can make kids more empathic
Washington: In an example of how a physical activity performed in unison helps children feel more positively toward one another, researchers have found that even a video game played together in sync on a computer could increase their empathy.
Facebook's clout not waning among teenagers: Survey
Despite threats from mobile messaging services, the social networking site Facebook is not going into history books, at least for now.
Amazon unveils new storage service Amazon EFS
Amazon has announced the launch of its new storage service, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), which provides a common file system for multiple (Elastic Compute Cloud) EC2 virtual machines on Amazon Web Services (AWS) through the standard NFSv4 protocol.
Microsoft partners Dropbox to allow edit of Office files in Dropbox using Office Online
Microsoft in partnership with Dropbox has announced a new integration that will now allow users to view and edit their Microsoft Office files, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents, in Dropbox using Office Online using the web.
Dust-covered belts of glaciers made of frozen water found on Mars
Astronomers have found dust-covered belts of glaciers made of frozen water on Mars.
Basic building blocks of life found around distant young star
Astronomers were recently able to detect the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in an infant star system for the first time ever.
NASA's chief scientist claims to find signs of alien life by 2025
NASA's chief scientist has claimed that they could find evidence of alien life in the universe as early as 2025.
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